Rebuilding Our Shattered Democracy: The Race Against Time

Bruce Ackerman

2025 PPE Distinguished Public Lecture with Bruce Ackerman

American Legal Scholar Bruce Ackerman will deliver the 2025 PPE Distinguished Public Lecture at Virginia Tech.

Bruce Ackerman has served as the Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University. He is the author of nineteen books in political philosophy, constitutional law, and public policy.

Professor Ackerman is a Commander of the French Order of Merit, a member of the American Law Institute, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The American Philosophical Society has awarded him the Henry Phillips Prize for lifetime achievement in Jurisprudence, especially noting his exploration of the great turning points in American constitutional history in his three-volume series, We the People.

At Virginia Tech, Professor Ackerman will speak about “Rebuilding Our Shattered Democracy: The Race Against Time.”

The lecture will take place on March 26, 2025, from 5-6:30pm in the Anne and Ellen Fife Theatre of the Moss Arts Center. No tickets are required. The lecture will be followed by a public reception. All faculty, students, and members of the public are cordially invited to attend.

Here is more information about the event.